{"id":36928,"date":"2018-05-01T10:11:07","date_gmt":"2018-05-01T15:11:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blinkassociates.com\/blog\/?p=36928"},"modified":"2018-05-02T13:25:30","modified_gmt":"2018-05-02T18:25:30","slug":"r-i-p-xmarks-the-end-of-browser-based-bookmarks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blinkassociates.com\/blog\/r-i-p-xmarks-the-end-of-browser-based-bookmarks\/","title":{"rendered":"R.I.P. Xmarks: The End of Browser-Based Bookmarks"},"content":{"rendered":"

Today marks the official end of Xmarks, the bookmarks sync utility. It was \u2018retired’ unsentimentally by LastPass<\/a>. Xmarks is the latest extinction of a product, highly valued by its users, which meets a sudden end and leaves its fans in the lurch. The former users of Vine and Google\u2019s Picassa can surely relate.<\/p>\n\"\"\n

Extinction is exactly the right word, as it seems that browser-based bookmarks are now dinosaurs. The heavy use of mobile\u2014where people use search or an app to get to preferred sites\u2014seems to be the main factor. The other is the turf wars between browsers, leading to the lack of an easy way to sync bookmarks from one to the other (Xmarks main feature).<\/p>\n

My bookmarks are now completely in the Cloud. There\u2019s no reason to access a bookmark unless you have an internet connection, so why not? I had to do the usual scramble and research to find a substitute for my discontinued product. I settled on Raindrop.io<\/a> which has great user experience and has been crafted with care across all browsers, iOS and macOS. I\u2019m highly satisfied and recommend it.<\/p>\n\"Facebook\"<\/a>\"twitter\"<\/a>\"pinterest\"<\/a>\"linkedin\"<\/a>\"mail\"<\/a>by <\/span>\"feather\"<\/a>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Today marks the official end of Xmarks, the bookmarks sync utility. It was \u2018retired’ unsentimentally by LastPass. Xmarks is the latest extinction of a product, highly valued by its users, which meets a sudden end and leaves its fans in the lurch. The former users of Vine and Google\u2019s Picassa can surely relate. Extinction is […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,40,21,43],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-36928","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-mobile","7":"category-productivity","8":"category-tech-lifestyle","9":"category-user-experience"},"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2jHqE-9BC","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blinkassociates.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36928","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blinkassociates.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blinkassociates.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blinkassociates.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blinkassociates.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36928"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blinkassociates.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36928\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36932,"href":"https:\/\/blinkassociates.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36928\/revisions\/36932"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blinkassociates.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36928"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blinkassociates.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36928"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blinkassociates.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36928"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}